Prática de Shadowing: Everyday English: Talk About Your Job | American English Connected Reading - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's look at the connected sounds in a short piece where somebody is explaining what kind of job they do.
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Now, this isn't actually my job.
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I just made this up.
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But let's take a look anyway.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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So there's not really any changed sounds here in this first sentence.
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But pay attention to how the sounds connect.
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I'm a free, I'm a freelance drone, drone photographer.
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All of these sounds connect to each other, the vowels and the consonants.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I own a couple different types of drones and people hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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I own a couple different types.
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Different types.
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We connect the two T sounds together.
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Different types.
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And look at this.
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I'm not saying different.
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That first E in different is completely removed.
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I'm not saying different types.
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It's just different.
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Different types.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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Here, of, before the consonant in drones, removes its sound.
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Types a drones.
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Types a drones.
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I own a couple different types of drones.
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And people hire me.
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And people, and people hire me.
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Now this is interesting and usually loosens its sound.
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It's normally an and people right and people but before a sound often turns into a sound.
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So it becomes and people and people hire me and people hire me.
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Now you can only say this if you're speaking quickly.
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As soon as you're speaking slowly, these connected sound rules don't usually apply.
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So if you're speaking slowly, and people hire me, and people.. now suddenly I'm saying every letter in the word,
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but as soon as I start speaking quickly, it's, and people hire me, and people hire me, and people hire me to get.. hire me to get..
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so the word to gets reduced a lot here.
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hire me to get aerial photos.
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So here to get ariel, there's a tap there, to get aerial photos, to get aerial photos.
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Hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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Forum.
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Forum.
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Now I could say for them, both are fine, but here aerial photos forum.
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Forum.
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The important part is that we're taking out the TH in them.
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Aerial photos for them.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images for an ad campaign.
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Most of my clients, we take out the v in of again, most of my clients, sir, sir, most of my clients are businesses.
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You might have seen sometimes the apostrophe R E spelling of R.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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You might have seen sometimes the apostrophe R-E spelling of R.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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Now, in American English, we don't normally write that.
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It's very uncommon to see apostrophe R-E after an ordinary noun like clients, for example.
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But we say it like that.
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Most of my clients are businesses.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images.
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Who want images.
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Here the T gets completely removed from want.
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Who won images for an ad campaign.
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For an ad campaign.
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Here for turns into fur.
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For an ad campaign.
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Like car dealerships or small farms.
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Like car.
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Like car dealerships.
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Here the K in like and the K in car connect together.
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Like car dealerships or small farms.
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or turns into just er, or small farms.
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I also sometimes do work for developers.
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I also connect these two vowel sounds together.
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I also sometimes, I also sometimes do work for developers.
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Here we're changing for into fur, for developers, for developers, for developers who want images of the land they're thinking about buying,
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who want images.
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And we're going to take out that T after the N before a vowel.
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Who wan images, who wan images of the land they're thinking about buying.
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Of the turns into a the.
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Wan images of the land, of the land there of the land they're thinking about buying
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and this is a series of complicated changes here of the land there
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so when I say land the D disappears and the N connects to the TH
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images of the land they're thinking about buying of the land they're thinking about buying.
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So we have two words here that end in ing, thinking about buying.
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In a lot of fast speech, the ing just turns into in.
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This happens to me if I'm speaking really informally, but if I'm speaking a little bit more formally, like if I'm talking about my job,
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I'll probably keep the ng sound at the end of an ing word thinking about buying instead of thinking about buy-in
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finally the t in about turns into a glottal stop thinking about thinking about about buying
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so whether you're saying ing or just in for the thinking
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and buying words the t in about will always turn into a glottal stop in fast speech.
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I'm a freelance drone photographer.
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I own a couple different types of drones and people hire me to get aerial photos for them.
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Most of my clients are businesses who want images for an ad campaign like car dealerships or small farms.
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I also sometimes do work for developers who want images of the land they're thinking about buying.
Por que praticar a fala com este vídeo?
Praticar a fala em inglês é essencial para desenvolver a fluência e a confiança no idioma. O vídeo "Everyday English: Talk About Your Job" oferece uma excelente oportunidade para você melhorar a pronúncia em inglês enquanto aprende sobre o vocabulário relacionado ao trabalho. O contexto em que o falante descreve seu trabalho como fotógrafo de drones permite que você se familiarize com expressões comuns usadas em ambientes profissionais. Além disso, ao imitar o fluxo da fala e a entonação do apresentador, você pode aplicar técnicas de shadowing em inglês, que são eficazes para aprimorar suas habilidades orais.
Gramática & Expressões em Contexto
O vídeo ilustra várias estruturas gramaticais e expressões que são úteis em conversações sobre trabalho. Vamos analisar algumas delas:
- "I'm a freelance drone photographer." - Esta frase simples apresenta o uso do presente contínuo para descrever uma ocupação. É uma construção comum que você pode usar para se apresentar em diferentes contextos.
- "I own a couple different types of drones." - Aqui observamos a construção "a couple of", que é uma maneira informal de se referir a um número pequeno. Essa expressão é útil para dar ênfase sem ser excessivamente formal.
- "People hire me to get aerial photos." - A estrutura “hire me to” é uma maneira comum de explicar o que as pessoas ou clientes fazem em relação aos serviços que você oferece. É uma expressão prática para usar ao se descrever em entrevistas ou reuniões.
Traps Comuns de Pronúncia
Um dos desafios ao aprender inglês com youtube é a pronúncia. No vídeo, existem algumas palavras e combinações que podem ser complicadas:
- "different types." - A pronúncia de “different” neste contexto praticamente elimina o som do primeiro “E”. Essa é uma forma de conectar sons de maneira mais natural, que você deve imitar ao praticar.
- "and people hire me." - O "and" e o "people" se conectam e soam como um único fluxo, o que pode ser confuso. Ao fazer shadowspeak, é importante notar como os sons se juntam.
- "aerial photos for them." - O TH em "them" é muitas vezes reduzido ou omisso. Saber como pronunciar corretamente essas palavras ajuda a soar mais natural ao falar.
Praticar essas expressões e armadilhas de pronúncia em situações reais ajudará você significativamente na sua prática de conversação em inglês. A repetição e o shadowing são essenciais para internalizar essas estruturas e sons.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.